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Welcome Spring!

Spring is officially here! The weather will be getting warmer, flowers will start to bloom, and we can start to spend more time outside! This is the perfect time for your family to explore all the things that come to life in the spring – insects, flowers, trees!…

World Folktales & Fables Week

  Five Favorite Folktales From Around the World   Reading folktales is a great way to share valuable lessons with your children and entertain them with interesting stories. With simple characters and settings, folktales show how characters use creativity, smarts, and ingenuity to solve problems, with good triumphing…

Process Driven Art

Process driven art may be an abstract term you have heard, but here is a description of what it is and how you can use it to do creative, engaging, age-appropriate art activities with young children. What is process driven art? How does it differ from product driven…

Time to Spread the Love

Celebrate Valentine’s Day by helping your child create valentines for siblings and family members or a bouquet for someone special! Then enjoy some of our favorite books celebrating the happiness of love.          Make a valentine butterfly (with or without the lollipop!) You will need:…

Black History Month

In recognition of Black History Month, here is a list of wonderful books to share with your children, this month and every month. Stories of real people and historical events, evocative tales of everyday life, many with beautiful illustrations – these stories are meaningful, thought provoking, and entertaining;…

Super Bowl LII

It’s Super Bowl Sunday! The New England Patriots vs. the Philadelphia Eagles… or is it really Massachusetts PCHP sites vs. Philadelphia PCHP sites? Massachusetts PCHP sites reach over 1350 families. Philadelphia PCHP sites, while just in year two of implementation, reach almost 200 families. PCHP families, children, and…

PCHP Board Member Hillary Frommer Visits Chile Site

PCHP Board Member Hillary Frommer recently had the opportunity to visit the Fundacion Ninos Primeros PCHP site in Santiago, Chile. She had the pleasure of meeting Amelia, one of the site’s first graduates, and her mother Victoria. Hillary was honored to be welcomed into Victoria and Amelia’s home,…

Hot Chocolate Time!

What better drink is there in the winter than hot chocolate?! Make some hot chocolate together with your children. Explain the steps, and have them help measure the chocolate and stir it into the milk. If you have them, let them count how many marshmallows they want. Then…

Celebrate Winter with Books and Penguins!

As the days get shorter and colder, it is time to officially celebrate the winter! This means time to break out the hot chocolate, boots, and mittens! Talk with your child about some of their favorite winter activities. Below you will find some books and an activity to…

Paper Plate Snowman

As the days are getting colder and the season is beginning to change, children in many parts of the country are getting excited about the possibility of snow (and if you live some place where snow is unlikely, this is a great way to get to build a…

Color Sorting Turkey

Here is a great art activity to do together on “Turkey Day”, you can also use it as a game to explore colors!   You Will Need: 1 large paper plate 1 small paper plate (or cut a circle from a large plate) Assorted construction paper Scissors Glue…

Pat the Bunny Craft

This simple activity is a combination of a number of different bunny crafts found on Pinterest. Note for other activities – the sticky side of contact paper is also an easy surface for collage activities and more. You Will Need: Simple bunny template (many free versions are available…